1st Edition

Problematising Intelligence Studies Towards A New Research Agenda

Edited By Hager Ben Jaffel, Sebastian Larsson Copyright 2022
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times. In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the... Read more

PART 1: Reconstructing the Object of Intelligence

1. Introduction: What’s the Problem with Intelligence Studies? Outlining a New Research Agenda on Contemporary Intelligence

Hager Ben Jaffel and Sebastian Larsson

2. Towards a Reflexive Study of Intelligence Accountability

Bernardino Leon Reyes

3. Tracing Pre-Emptive Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP): Immigration, Classification Struggles, and the Expansion of Intelligence Logics in British Policing

Liam McVay

PART 2: The Practical Transformations of Contemporary Intelligence

4. Citizen-Led Intelligence Gathering under UK’s Prevent Duty

Amna Kaleem

5. Prison Intelligence in France: An Empirical Investigation of the Emergence of Counter-Radicalisation Professionals

David Scheer

6. Manufacturing Intelligence: Police and Intelligence Services in Germany

Jean-Paul Hanon

7. Transversal Practices of Everyday Intelligence Work in New Zealand: Transnationalism, Commercialism, Diplomacy

Damien Rogers

8. The Techno-Legal Boundaries of Intelligence: NSA and FRA’s Collaborations in Transatlantic Mass Surveillance

Sebastian Larsson

PART 3: Conceptual Reconsiderations of Intelligence

9. Regulating the Internet in Times of Mass Surveillance: A Universal Global Space with Universal Human Rights?

Alvina Hoffmann

10. After Cambridge Analytica: Rethinking Surveillance in the Age of (Com)Modification

Håvard Markussen

11. Violence Performed in Secret by State Agents: For an Alternative Problematisation of Intelligence Studies

Didier Bigo

PART 4: Conclusion

12. Conclusion: Towards New Intelligence Studies

Hager Ben Jaffel and Sebastian Larsson

Biography

Hager Ben Jaffel is a Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.

Sebastian Larsson is an Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, Sweden.